Early Breakfast withRelebogile Mabotja

Divorce proceedings have the potential to become messy, as couples fight over how money and assets should be shared. Issues of child maintenance also drive a wedge between family members.

In a court judgment by the Pietermaritzburg High Court, a woman was granted permission to probe the bank acccounts of her husband's new partner as she suspected that her husband had used the woman to hide his money.

Records then revealed that the partners' account had an opening balance of R5.5 million, which increased to R21 million in over a year.